Heron montage (Patreon)

The bird section of The Big Book is HUGE, so the more pictures the better. I recently decided to produce illustrations of a few heron groups in addition to the 'typical heron' (Ardea) I produced some months ago. So, we now have a night heron Nycticorax (lower right) and bittern Botaurus (lower left). Members of all of these groups are known as fossils. I was thinking of sharing the long heron text here at patreon... but part of me thinks that I should share the text until the book is finished, because that would ruin the surprise :)

As usual for extant animals, these illustrations have been done from photos. My drawings work pretty well if you don't look at them too closely - but I think these look pretty good and hope you agree.

Damn I want to finish this book. I work on it when I can. Thanks as always for your support - so much stuff yet to come.